Biography

RAKEL HERRERO Dr (F), is Project Manager at NAITEC holding a M.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry (1999) and PhD (2002) at The Manchester Metropolitan University. She joined CEMITEC in 2003 working in polymer materials and biodiesel R&D projects in the Materials Area. She has been working in functional printing since 2006, first in functional inkjet printing and since 2011 in the Materials Deposition Area of NAITEC using the following printing techniques: R2R flexo printing, gravure coating, rotary and flat screen printing and sheet to sheet offset printing. Her job is mainly focused on printed electronics transferring knowledge to companies. Lately she has been working on bioactive materials printing, e-textile development, capacitive devices design and characterization and on the startup of a new functional inks company MATEPRINCS, which commercialized the inks developed at NAITEC. She is an expert at the IEC TC 119 printed electronics normalization group and member of different clusters and organizations related with printed electronics